While sourced from many materials of personal and cultural meaning, this marionette series rejects the notion of measurable parameters to describe the body, welcoming instead the composite, the disproportionate, and the uncertain as elements of wholeness. The bodies are made up of materials from specific histories— remnants of consumption. Some materials reference the infamous Grand Guignol Theatre (France), where the invention of fake blood and the repurposing of animal scraps were used to terrify audiences (late 19th-early 20th century). French psychologist Alfred Binet (1857-1911) wrote plays for this theater, basing the characters on his patients in the asylums. Other materials reference plant scents from my grandmother’s home, as well as common spices used in Iranian cuisine, which have healing medicinal properties.